"Even if we have to think that the Higgs boson has nothing to do with God, it is nevertheless true that discoveries such as today's have a powerful impact on our lives, on our worldview, and therefore also on our religiosity. It is a kind of effect that we can only call “neutralizing” with respect to our lived history. How can we compare the few millennia of human history with the endless horizons of geological eras, the formation of the physical cosmos, and, indeed, the minutes following the Big Bang?"
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Ma non è nella natura che si scopre il divino, lastampa.it, 5 July 2012
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Gianni Vattimo
Gianteresio Vattimo (4 January 1936 – 19 September 2023) was an Italian philosopher and politician.
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